Strategic Plans and Mission

Vision:

We envision a region with a healthy and sustainable economy that creates wealth, preserves the quality of life and improves the standard of living for area residents. Our mission focuses on facilitating and attracting investment, creating new job opportunities, stimulating income growth and expanding the local community tax base.

Guiding principles:

• Economic development recognizes that success only comes from an on-going, long-term effort and requires a true partnership between the public and private sectors.
• Economic development strategies need to reflect the diversity, values, interests and desires of individual local communities and its citizenry.
• Economic development goals should build upon community/regional interdependence and encourage cooperation in a countrywide, cost effective economic development strategy.
• Economic development programs and policies must protect the environment, maintain the quality of life and improve the standard of living of all residents regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, religion, age and marital status.
• Economic development can and ought to demonstrate specific and measurable results.

Goals:

• Increase the number and quality of primary or basic sector jobs and business enterprises in Greeley/Weld County that is, enterprises that export goods and services outside the local economy to regional, national and international clients and import dollars into the local economy (create wealth).
• Build and maintain a solid secondary or non-basic sector of the economy incorporating activities (e.g., retail and service sectors) that serve the local economy by the recirculation of dollars retaining the local wealth and economic benefits of economic development activities in the local economy.
• Facilitate economic development decision-making by enterprises and individuals seeking to invest in the Greeley/Weld County area; develop the relationship between the public and private sectors; work to include all segments of the community in the benefits of economic development activity.
• Act as a resource and clearinghouse for economic development information and issues by providing leadership and imagination in solving problems that impact the area's economic health including new and innovative programs to stimulate the creation, attraction, retention and expansion of wealth-generating enterprises.